ELLERMAN, J.R. and T.C.S. MORRISON-SCOTT. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. Second Edition. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), July 1966. Pp (6),1-810,+ folding map frontispiece. Index. Thick 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering on maroon panel to spine. "It is a commonplace that novelty exercises such an attraction that it frequently diverts to itself a measure of attention out of all proportion to the true value of the subject or object. In science the field of every new discovery forthwith becomes the focal point round which atten... View more info

PHILLIPS, John Goldsmith. China-Trade Porcelain : An Account of Its Historical Background, Manufacture, and Decoration and a Study of the Helen Woolworth McCann Collection. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published for the Winfield Foundation and the Metropolitain Museum of Art [by] Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp (4),v-xxi,(2),2-234. Illustrated (some in colour). Index. Double Column. 4to, blue and grey cloth, gilt lettering to front board and spine. Contents : Part One : China-Trade Porcelain. Chingtechen; The Opening of Trade with the West; The East India Companies and the China Trade; The Tr... View more info

FORBES, Archibald. Chinese Gordon : A Succinct Record of His Life. New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1884. Pp (8),[7]-215,(5), frontispiece portrai t. 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering and dragon to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Contents : 1. Early Days, and the Crimea. 2. Chinese Gordon inChina. 3. Gravesend and the Equator. 4. Governor-General of the Soudan. 5. India, China, and the Cape. 6. British Plenipotentiary in the Soudan. Majo r-General Charles George Gordon (1833 – 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and ad... View more info

SWARO, Desarathi. The Christian Missionaries in Orissa (Their Impact on Nineteenth Century Society). Orissa Studies Project No. 37. Calcutta : Punthi Pustak, 1990. First Ediiton. Pp (4),[vii]-x,(4),[1]-292,+ 2 folding maps atrear. 8vo, reddish cloth, black lettering to spine. "The missionary activi ties were of particularimportance to the socio-religious, cultural and educational history of modern Orissa. This is the first book to give a detail analysis of their multiple achievements in Orissa in nineteenth century. Thebook should thus appeal to anyone interested in the history of missiona... View more info

BUCHANAN, Claudius, Rev. Christian Researches in Asia : With Notices on theTranslation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages, BOUND WITH The Eras of Light, Being Two Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge on Commencement Day, Sunday July 1, 1810, BOUND WITH A Sermon preachedat The Parish Church of St. Anne, Blackfriars, London, on Tuesday, June 12 , 1810 before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, BOUND WITH The Star in the East, a Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. James, Bristol, for the benefit of The Society for Missions to Africa and the East.... View more info

MOORE, R. J. Churchill, Cripps, and India 1939-1945. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1979. First Edition. Pp (4),[v]-viii,(2),[1]-152, frontispiece portraitof Cripps. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "This is the story of a missed opportunity. In his sequel to The Crisis of Indian Unity, 1917-19 40 (1974) Professor Moore argues that Sir Stafford Cripps's mission to India in 1942 could, if successful, have prevented the ultimate partition of India. Indian participation in a power-sharing executive would have led to co-operation between Hindus and Muslims. The failure of the mission can b... View more info

ALLEN, Geoffrey and David. Clive's Lost Treasure. L: Robin Garton, 1978. Pp103. Illustrated. Large 8vo, brown cloth. An account of a treasure dive in South African waters, accompanied by Great White sharks. The booty in ques tion was Robert Clive's personal wealth, bound for India but lost along with the lives of over one hundred and fifty soldiers in the waters off Port Elizabeth. Slightly splayed, else vg in rubbed dj. 50.00 View more info

DONALDSON, Hay Frederick. Cold Storage at the London and India Docks. With an Abstract of the Discussion upon the Paper. Edited by J.H.T. Tudsbery. L:The Institution of Civil Engineers, 1897. Pp 50 + 2 folding plate at rear. 8vo, printed wraps. Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of C ivil Engineers Vol. 129. Session 1896-97, Part 3. Not in Ben Cohen, The Thames 1580-1980 : A General Bibliography. Plans, tables and figures in the text, and 2 large folding plate with more plans. Fine. 75.00 View more info

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CRUMP, Helen J. Colonial Admiralty Jurisdiction in the Seventeenth Century.London, New York, Toronto : Published for The Royal Empire Society by Long mans, Green and Co., 1931. First Edition. Pp (8),[ix]-x,(2),[1]-200. Index.8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Imperial Studies, No. 5. See Cat alogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum, Vol 5. History 897. A Thesis approved for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London. Contents : 1. The English Vice-Admiralty System. 2. The Colonial Promoters and Vice-Admiralty Jurisdiction. 3. The Development of Vice-Admiral... View more info

KENT, Alexander. Command a King's Ship . London: Hutchinson, (1973). First UK Printing. Pp. [1]-320. Illustrated endpapers. 8vo, maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Smith & Weller, Sea Fiction Guide 1344. "In March 1784, at a time when most of the fleet was laid up, His Majesty's frigate Undine weight anchor at Spithead to begin a voyage to India and far beyond. As her new captain, Richard Bolitho was glad to go, despite the nature of his orders and the immensity of the voyage -- for he was leaving an England still suffering from the aftermath of war. But he was to learn that signat... View more info

EDGE, Arabella. The Company : The Story of a Murderer. [dj adds... A Novel]. NY: Simon & Schuster, (2000). Advanced Reader's Copy. Pp 369. 8vo, illustrated card covers. "The Company is a novel based on the 1629 voyage of the Dutch East India Company flagship Batavia, which was bound for the colonieswith an cargo of untold riches. Among the passengers is Cornelisz, a man s o twisted by lust and greed that he [...]." -from the cover. Vg. 15.00 View more info

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